In this episode, Greg sits down with Michael Lathrop of Pro Football Newsroom and host of the Player 54 Podcast, to talk about and update listeners here in Japan and around the world as to the latest happenings in the world of American minor league football, particularly the newly relaunched Continental Football League and the latest news regarding the United Football League.
Continental Football League: The 2026 Blueprint Revealed, by Michael Lathrop - https://pfnewsroom.com/cofl/continental-football-league-the-2026-blueprint-revealed
CoFL Making a Bold Move, by Scott Adamson- https://adamsonmedia.com/football-continental-league-summer/
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As the autumn chill sets in here in Japan, the show is back live to talk about all that happened and didn't happen in X League Super play during the month of October. We also talk about the spring football in America and international player development, as well as the Dodgers win in the World Series.
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In conjunction with our good friends at The World of Football podcast (www.theworldoffootball.com), we present to you Round 5 scores from this past week of X League X1 Area play.
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From 2022, John, B.J. and Greg sit down with Texan Colton Runyan, then a member of Club Bears of X-3 football and former player in Tokyo's Urban Football League. Colton also is a former player in the United Kingdom with Cambridge University and the Cambridgeshire Cats of the British American Football Association. In addition to his football career, Colton is also a trained sumo wrestler whom our own John Gunning has come to know while reporting on his training and career for the Japan Times ("Sumo makes its way to Cambridge" Japan Times, by John Gunning).
At the time of recording, Colton was pursuing a doctorate from Cambridge University, with his research focus being that of premodern sumo wrestling. The four also review the games of Week 2 in Super X-League play, with B.J. providing the type of insight on the week that was, which only a former player and coach can provide.
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In conjunction with our good friends at The World of Football podcast (www.theworldoffootball.com), we present to you Round 5 scores from this past week of X League X1 Super play.
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In conjunction with our good friends at The World of Football podcast (www.theworldoffootball.com), we present to you Round 4 scores from this past week of X League X1 Area play.
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In conjunction with our good friends at The World of Football podcast (www.theworldoffootball.com), we present to you our the early October scores from X League X1 Area and Super play.
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With Greg on vacation for the week, we reach back into the archives to episode 27, from 2023, when John, BJ and Greg sat down with Antoine Sinclair of the Blue Thunder, to talk about his life and journey to Japan. From Georgia to Japan, and from the rugby pitch to the gridiron, Antoine has had an interesting and varied journey!
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In conjunction with our good friends at The World of Football podcast (www.theworldoffootball.com), we present to you our week 5 scoreboard that covers the third round of 2025 X League Super play (the league plays every other week).
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It was another week of upsets in the X League and the crew returns to break it all down as the regular season reaches the halfway point. After which we take a peak at the week four matchups taking place in mid-October.
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In conjunction with our good friends at The World of Football podcast (www.theworldoffootball.com), we present to you our week 4 scoreboard that covers the first two rounds of X League Area play (the league plays every other week).
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Coming off their upset win in week 2 of X League Super action over perennial powerhouse, the Fujitsu Frontiers, former University of Arizona Wildcat and now star wide receiver for the Nojima Sagamihara Rise, Tay Cunningham (on Instagram- www.instagram.com/tayvian.cunningham), sits down with the Gridiron Japan crew to talk about his career and life in Japan.
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Week 2 of the X League Super season witnessed the biggest upset in recent Gridiron Japan history and a complete upending of the power rankings! We break it all down in this episode and look ahead to Week 3 where we hope we see more surprises from those teams also seeking to Rise to the challenge.
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In conjunction with our good friends at The World of Football podcast (www.theworldoffootball.com), we present to you our week 3 scoreboard that covers the second week of X League Super play (the league plays every other week). A more indepth of the week that was will be coming out soon, with John, Aaron and Greg talking about the teams and players who shone bright on the way to the Rice Bowl.
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The Gridiron Japan crew sits down with Tokyo Gas Creators' star defensive lineman, St. Louis native Matt McClellan (https://www.instagram.com/sackmamba/ | https://x.com/sackmamba & https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalSackboy), to talk about his journey to Japan where he is leading his team on a quest for championship glory.
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In conjunction with our good friends at The World of Football podcast (www.theworldoffootball.com), we present to you a new weekly (and sometimes bi-weekly or monthly depending upon the sports calendar) segment that gives a rundown of the scores for the top gridiron games played here in Japan, from the top level to the college ranks.
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The guys return to look back at the week that was in week one of X League Super and do a deep dive on why teams won, lost, regressed and took a step back from 2024. We also talk to Aaron's debut as QB of the Ibaraki Saviors.
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In conjunction with our good friends at The World of Football podcast (www.theworldoffootball.com), we present to you a new weekly (and sometimes bi-weekly or monthly depending upon the sports calendar) segment that gives a run down of all the scores we can track down for the gridiron games played here in Japan, from the top level to the college ranks, and hopefully even lower as Greg improves his sports research skills.
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The Gridiron Japan crew sits down with the new IBM Big Blue TE Tommy Auger. Tommy is an LFA and FCF (Fan Controlled Football) All-Pro, as well as an AFCA All-American. While playing in the LFA he set league records for single season reception, yards and touchdowns. A feat we hope he repeats here in Japan.
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On the eve of week one in X-League play in Japan, IBM Big Blue coach Mike Phair returns to the show to talk to the crew about the upcoming season and how his team is shaping up going into his second season as head coach.
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